Open AccessThe New Professionalism
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
bulletin of the royal college of surgeons of england
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1478-7075
pISSN - 1473-6357
DOI - 10.1308/rcsbull.2015.10
Subject(s) - norm (philosophy) , health care , medicine , engineering ethics , sociology , political science , nursing , management , law , engineering , economics
With ‘assembly line’ healthcare becoming the norm, relations between management and clinicians are increasingly strained and many are expressing concern at the deprofessionalisation of medicine. However, Richard Canter argues that all is not lost: we just need to change our definition of professionalism.